The Years I Was 21: The Summers Of Love

On the third day of the Woodstock festival, Max Yasgur, the owner of the farm on which it was being held, was asked to address the audience. What he said to this huge gathering of young people was another one of those defining Woodstock moments. And there began the idea of a “Woodstock Nation”. An idea that embodied not only the spirit of Woodstock itself but the totality of what that generation had espoused. But just four months later, on December 6, at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California, at another rock concert, the era of the hippie culture and the summers of love came to an inglorious end.